Star Cruises' Gemini to return to Singapore

Star Cruises is to position its luxury cruise ship, the SuperStar Gemini, to Singapore for a four-month stint beginning November 2005. The move is being been taken to meet strong demand for fly/cruise holidays to Singapore in a number of overseas markets including Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe.

The 19,093-tonne SuperStar Gemini will offer regular seven-night South-east Asia cruise itineraries along the Straits of Malacca and Andaman Sea from 20 November 2005 until 2 April 2006. The weekly departures from Singapore will call at Port Klang (Kuala Lumpur), Langkawi Island and Penang in Malaysia and Krabi and Phuket in Thailand.

In addition, three special seven-night South China Sea cruises to Ko Samui and Ho Chi Minh City will depart from Singapore on 2, 9 and 16 April 2006. Both the regular and special itineraries have been designed to provide more relaxed cruises, including overnight stopovers in Phuket and Ho Chi Minh City to give travellers more time to enjoy and explore the sights of these destinations.

Presently, SuperStar Virgo sails out of Singapore three times a week on cruises lasting two or three nights. The return of SuperStar Gemini to Singapore will not only increase Star Cruises’ passenger capacity out of Singapore by more than 40 percent, but will also enable the company to offer longer cruises and to new destinations.

Currently based in Taiwan and offering cruises to Japan, SuperStar Gemini will be in dry-dock in Singapore for about two weeks prior to the start of her new itinerary.

SuperStar Gemini entered service in 1992 and her return to the original homeport in coincides with the tenth year since it joined the Star Cruises fleet in 1995 pioneering the South-east Asia fly/cruise market particularly from Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom.

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